Assignment: Discussion Board #4
Week of Feb 22-28
Module 5: Meaning: Hegel and the construction of history, national expression, ethics, and the projection of cultural mythology; effects of the materialist position; revivalism and eclecticism; alienation, self-referentially and the natural sphere; genius and intellectualization; how to represent the present – materialist approach & universal style; architecture, craft, commerce and business.
Readings: Collins,”The Awareness of Styles” from Changing Ideals of Modern Architecture (PDF)
Courbet, “from Realist Manifesto 1855” in Modernism, An Anthology of Sources and Documents, 169
Gropius, “Manifesto of the Bauhaus, April 1919” in Modernism, An Anthology of Sources and Documents, 301
Vesely, “Modernity and the question of representation” in Tracing Modernity, 81- 100